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| Landing pod |
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| Starting biome (Coral Forest) |
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| Landing pod message |
The landing pod arrived in an area with strange coral-like tree trunks. This starting biome may also be known as Coral Valley or Coral Forest. There is a storage container full of food, water and air canisters as well as a flower seed (I got a Snepea Seed which gives a 200% oxygen multiplier), a basic crafting station and a message from Sentinel Corp. telling you your job is to terraform the planet and start by increasing oxygen, heat and pressure to reach 175,000 Ti and a blue atmosphere.
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| T1 ore crusher for converting ores |
Gather resources nearby to make starting equipment such as a backpack, oxygen tank, construction/deconstruction tools, torch and exoskeleton. Make a few basic wind turbines for power then build an ore crusher - this converts dolomite (a new ore that looks similar to iron but glows blue in the dark) to basic ores such as cobalt, iron, magnesium, silicon and titanium. Cobalt can be hard to find naturally, so you will need the ore crusher.
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| Air shelter |
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| Osmium Cave entrance |
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| Osmium Cave lake |
Get used to running around with 3 iron, 2 titanium and 1 silicon so you can quickly build a living compartment and door to replenish your air supply. I recommend heading west of the landing pod towards the snowy mountains as there is ice in and around the caves which is essential for making water in the early game. Inside the cave is a frozen lake with osmium crystals at the bottom.
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| Osmium Cave open cavern |
There is a tunnel that leads to a large open cavern where you can see the sky and several wrecked or frozen drones. The cavern contains basic ores, ice, super alloy and several blue crates, but no dolomite. It's reasonably flat so there is plenty of room to build a base. Once you decide on a starting base location, you will need to start building more wind turbines, drills, heaters and vegetubes to start increasing the terraformation and unlocking new technology. You can also start building some information screens that will help you monitor your progress.
I found some new flower seeds in the blue crates: Seleus Seed (gives 300% oxygen multiplier bonus) and Furteo Seed (350% oxygen multiplier). You want to use the seeds with the highest oxygen multiplier in the vegetubes to increase oxygen generation quicker. Food is hard to find, so it's also important to boost oxygen production to unlock the food grower as soon as possible.
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| Osmium Cave closed cavern |
If you follow the super alloy trail, there is another tunnel leading to a huge covered cavern with another frozen lake. There is a lot of uraninite in this cave. Uraninite is a new ore on Humble that can be used in the ore crusher and converted into other ores such as iridium, uranium or super alloy. There are also some wrecked drones and equipment in this cavern that can be looted.
Try to upgrade your equipment and terraforming machines when you can. The compass is useful to help with navigating (there are lots of caves and tunnels on Humble). Keep an eye out for aluminium which is reasonably rare in the early game but needed for better tiers of equipment and machines.
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| Rocket Valley cave entrance |
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| Rocket Valley |
Following the edge of the frozen lake in the closed cavern to the east leads to another tunnel that takes you out of the mountains and into Rocket Valley (where a rocket has crashed). Rocket Valley is north of Coral Forest and has some blue crates and crashed drones to investigate.
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| Uranium Cave outer entrance |
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| Uranium Cave inner entrance |
South of Rocket Valley is another cave entrance. Inside, the branch on the right (west) opens into a cave scattered with chunks of uranium, while the branch on the left (east) is blocked off by a wall of ice (for now).
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| Central Hangars |
East of the Uranium Cave and south-east of Rocket Valley is a fairly flat area with several large hangars. The edge of the Coral Forest is just to the south. We've almost come full circle! There are a number of T2 solar panels near the hangars that can be deconstructed and reconstructed to provide a good chunk of power (I think of it like disconnecting them from the old power network and connecting them to my new power network). I have decided to build my main base on a plateau between the Central Hangars and the Coral Forest. Why do I call them the Central Hangars? There is easy access to biomes to the north, east, south and west, similar to the Central Plateau on Planet Prime.
My starter base in the Osmium Cave has been making progress with terraformation while I have been exploring. I unlocked the food grower around 40 kTi. Now I need to find more aluminium to make more food growers - I'd like at least 3 to start with because the veges take time to grow.
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| Alleyway towards Volcano |
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| Smoking Sinkholes |
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| Volcano cave entrance |
I'd like to explore some more of the world and see it before it starts to change. So, I will head back to the Coral Forest then travel east towards the Volcano, then north. There is a lot of iridium, aluminium and bauxite near the Smoking Sinkholes and Volcano. Bauxite can be converted to aluminium in the ore crusher. There are some hot rocks that can be blown up with explosives. I couldn't enter the cave into the Volcano because of heat damage close to the lava. It seems a dangerous place to go in
early game - bring plenty of food and water with you.
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| Sulfur Terrace from a distance |
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| Sulfur Terrace |
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| Sulfur Terrace cave |
I turned north and headed for the Sulfur Terrace. It looks like it has yellow waterfalls, large shallow pits and a yellow fog. There are plenty of lumps of sulfur and some dolomite here as well. Fortunately, I found some cargo containers with food and water which were very helpful. I found a small cave in the Sulfur Terrace with a crashed drone at the end. I had some microchips taking up space in my backpack so I quickly built a blueprints screen in my air shelter to unlock the recipes. The
mapping screen would be very nice and I would love to get a bigger oxygen tank. I'll have to upgrade everything when I get back to base.
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| Colosseum |
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| Black Rift |
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| Black Rift entrance to the Volcano |
I just reached 100 kTi and got our first meteor shower. On the northern edge of the Sulfur Terrace we came to a cliff and could look north-west and see some hills and pillars of rock that look a bit like the Colosseum, with ice inside, or we could look to the north-east and see a rocky valley under an arch with a crashed ship. I headed north-east first and I can see why some people call it the Black Rift - it does look a bit like the Grand Rift on Prime, but with smaller dark pointy rocks and cliffs. I also found another entrance to the Volcano area from the Black Rift.
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| Black Rift crashed ship |
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| Drone Valley |
Approaching the crashed ship, I found some uraininite. I also discovered I will need to build a staircase to reach the entrance to the ship, so I will come back later. I am running out of food and water again and need to find some more crates or head back to base. I learnt the hard way that you don't want to get stuck down in those canyons - there's not many resources down there and no quick or easy way out. Beyond the Black Rift I found a valley full of giant mining drones I guess. I think I'll
need a jetpack to reach the control panels. I start heading back towards the Colosseum.
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| Valley north of Black Rift |
I got a little distracted heading towards the Colosseum - there was another valley north of the Black Rift and Colosseum. I don't have enough food and water to go explore there now, but I'll come back to it.
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| Colosseum |
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| Colosseum close-up |
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| Colosseum crystals |
Closer to the Colosseum, I found there are lots of blue crates and interesting crystal formations, and when the ice melts it looks like there will be some large caves to explore. There was also a path heading north and some areas on top of the Colosseum to explore as well. Since there are several of these colosseum structures, I will probably try to number them or label them by position (e.g. Colosseum West would be the round one closest to the Central Hangars).
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| Sea of Fog at night |
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| Northern Gateway |
I made it back to base. To the south of the Coral Forest are cliffs and a Sea of Fog, so I can't go that way. To the north of the Central Hangars is a path heading further north beyond a pair of pillars of rock jutting out like a broken arch or gateway. I'll head out that way and hope I can finish my world tour before I reach the Blue Sky stage.
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| Sandy Basin |
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| Sandy Basin Drone DR04 |
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| Drone DR04 message |
I found a huge sandy basin surrounded by cliffs and there is a biodome and an icy cave! There was a lot of bauxite and dolomite scattered across the sands. I found a wrecked drone called DR04 that seemed to be sentient and questioning its instructions. Interesting.
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| Crystal Valley from a distance |
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| Crystal Valley close-up |
I tried heading north from the Basin, but I couldn't find a way out so I had to go back through the Northern Gateway to the path heading north from the Colosseum. I found lots of super alloy along this path and could see a crashed ship on a plateau north of Rocket Valley, and some shiny black crystals or rocks north of the Basin. The black crystals glowed purple up close and it seemed to be perpetually dark as night. There is osmium and a biodome nearby.
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| Ship Plateau view to the north-east |
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| Ship Plateau view to the south |
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| Ship Plateau view to the south-east |
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| Ship Plateau view to the west |
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| Ship Plateau hangars |
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| Entrance to crashed ship on Ship Plateau |
I continued west up a hill and made it to the Ship Plateau. The view was amazing! It would be a good flat place to build except for being far away from everything in the early game. The ship was pretty big and there were some more hangars nearby. The door to the crashed ship was open so I had a peek inside. Lots of things to deconstruct and paths going in all directions! I'll need lots of oxygen to explore in there.
Finally, I reached the Blue Sky stage at 175kTi. I think I saw most of the world in it's early state. It will be interesting to see how it all changes as the world terraforms. Now it's time to head back to base and start building some more machines.
